Word: fatalism
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...similar, private offer of negotiations last year, Hassan had arranged to meet secretly with Houari Boumedienne, but the Algerian President's fatal illness forced a cancellation. Now it is more difficult than ever to see the outline of a possible settlement. Algeria has little to lose by continuing to support the Polisario so long as its own troops are not involved and Libya continues to provide much of the rebels' financing. For its part, Morocco is clearly not willing to give up any of its annexed real estate peaceably. Besides his own irredentist impulse, Hassan also...
There is an omnipresent temptation to succumb: "The mathematics of self-pity can be raised to infinity." Instead, although convinced from the beginning that his disease is fatal, Ryan sets out with reportorial objectivity to give battle and to keep accounts. He travels from his Connecticut home to Europe and the West Coast in search of the latest treatments and carefully monitors his progress...
...Grass Patch. It is a barren, almost unpopulated land of sand and saltbush. Out of the blackness of the southwestern sky one night last week, the fringe of this isolated region was visited by a fiery symbol of the Western world's most advanced technology: the final, fatal fall of Skylab...
...history is a guide, there really is no one who can tell Carter how he should lead. It must come from within him. That is the worry. He has little sense of history, nor has he proved himself to be an imaginative man. These may be fatal flaws...
...against the treaty were repeated rebuffs, from both the White House and the Kremlin, to any Senate suggestions for amendments. Early last week in Moscow, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko took the unusual step of calling a press conference and declared that any changes in the treaty would be fatal. Said Gromyko: "It would be the end of negotiations. It would be impossible, whatever amendments might be added." Western diplomats were struck by the toughness of Gromyko's language, which underscored the position taken by Leonid Brezhnev at the Vienna summit...